Timeline for Why is quixotic pronounced as it is?
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| Jun 20, 2020 at 11:05 | answer | added | Greybeard | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jun 19, 2020 at 23:11 | answer | added | Protector one | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jun 5, 2019 at 15:14 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | Do you pronounce 'Paris' the French way? 'when it should by rights/origin be pronounced' is an argument that usually needs throwing out. | |
| Jul 5, 2015 at 17:11 | comment | added | rogermue | Why do you think that in English a word must be pronounced as in Spanish? | |
| Jul 5, 2015 at 16:00 | history | protected | tchrist♦ | ||
| Jul 5, 2015 at 13:14 | answer | added | Howard Carson | timeline score: 1 | |
| Apr 11, 2015 at 6:54 | answer | added | Sven Yargs | timeline score: 2 | |
| Dec 13, 2014 at 14:59 | comment | added | WS2 | Nothing to do with quick-as-a-tick? | |
| Dec 13, 2014 at 14:43 | answer | added | Marjorie | timeline score: 3 | |
| Dec 6, 2014 at 2:05 | history | edited | tchrist♦ |
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| Feb 24, 2014 at 16:46 | comment | added | TylerH | @nxx in America I have only ever heard it pronounced "kwicks-OTT-ick" by family, friends, news reporters, et al. | |
| Feb 24, 2014 at 11:57 | comment | added | user66931 | My high school teachers all pronounced it as "kee-ottick", never what I consider to be the British pronunciation of quixotic as shown in the dictionary. | |
| Dec 28, 2013 at 7:37 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackEnglish/status/416835379275517952 | ||
| Dec 28, 2013 at 0:05 | answer | added | John Lawler | timeline score: 11 | |
| Dec 27, 2013 at 23:15 | comment | added | nxx | @Janus Bahs Jacquet Thanks. Does anyone know of anywhere that cites the /kiːˈ(h)əʊtɪk/ form as correct/acceptable? | |
| Dec 27, 2013 at 23:05 | comment | added | Janus Bahs Jacquet | @nxx, the OED has /ks/ for both BrE and AmE (it actually lists both). I've never seen a dictionary list the /ho/ version, even as an alternative, though it does of course exist. (I knew the word before I knew its origin, and I always found it to be cognitively somehow, intangibly and ineffably, connected to ‘quizzical’ until I learnt whence it came). | |
| Dec 27, 2013 at 23:00 | comment | added | nxx | @Janus Bahs Jacquet Perhaps I am one of those that simply pronounces it based on knowing its origin. Thinking of it now, I'm not sure if I've ever heard it pronounced! Is /kwɪkˈsɒtɪk/ perhaps an American pronunciation and /kiːˈ(h)əʊtɪk/ British? Can someone point me to pronunciation sources? | |
| Dec 27, 2013 at 22:47 | vote | accept | B. Clay Shannon-B. Crow Raven | ||
| Dec 27, 2013 at 22:42 | comment | added | Janus Bahs Jacquet | @tchrist, oh yeah—getting my phonemic and phonetic transcription mixed up here. Let’s just call it broad phonetic RP. :-þ | |
| Dec 27, 2013 at 22:40 | history | edited | tchrist♦ |
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| Dec 27, 2013 at 22:38 | comment | added | tchrist♦ | @JanusBahsJacquet Since when do you have /əʊ/ instead of /oʊ/? :) | |
| Dec 27, 2013 at 22:28 | answer | added | T.E.D. | timeline score: 5 | |
| Dec 27, 2013 at 22:26 | comment | added | tchrist♦ | @JanusBahsJacquet Perhaps quijotesque would work better then. | |
| Dec 27, 2013 at 22:24 | comment | added | Janus Bahs Jacquet | @nxx, /kwɪkˈsɒtɪk/ is indeed the standard pronunciation. I have heard a few people pronounce it /kiːˈ(h)əʊtɪk/, but these were people who had never actually heard the word used in conversation, but knew of its origins. Also, the more standard adjectives for ‘onomatopoeia’ are onomatopoeic and onomatopoetic (earlier onomatopoietical), but not onomatopoeiatic. | |
| Dec 27, 2013 at 22:20 | comment | added | B. Clay Shannon-B. Crow Raven | That is the pronunciation you will find if you look it up - unless you happen to run across something different than me. I have only heard it pronounced that way. How have you heard it pronounced? The way I proposed, or...??? | |
| Dec 27, 2013 at 22:19 | comment | added | nxx | I wouldn't say the onomatopoeia is relevant - just a happy accident. I haven't ever heard it said "kwicks-OTT-ick". Where does this happen?? DOES it even happen? | |
| Dec 27, 2013 at 22:13 | comment | added | B. Clay Shannon-B. Crow Raven | "Sonourous" was a typo; the other is a neologism, whose origin and meaning should be obvious. | |
| Dec 27, 2013 at 22:13 | history | edited | B. Clay Shannon-B. Crow Raven | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 27, 2013 at 22:10 | comment | added | tchrist♦ | “Sonourous”? “Onomatopoeiatic”? I know words that remind me of those, at least somewhat, but not in the way you would use them. What do you mean? | |
| Dec 27, 2013 at 22:01 | history | asked | B. Clay Shannon-B. Crow Raven | CC BY-SA 3.0 |